About Ana
Ana Maria Berryman is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, steady support for those facing grief, depression, and major life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and take place with a variety of online formats.
Ana Maria focuses on building an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She listens closely to each person’s story and tailors practical steps for daily life.
Background and approach
Clients learn small strategies to reduce worry and cope with overwhelming moments. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are introduced for grounding and noticing the present moment. She also brings psychodynamic perspective when helpful, paying attention to patterns that repeat over time. This mix helps people address immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns together.
Ana Maria pays special attention to concerns like compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and social anxiety. People reach out for help with abandonment, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, or isolation and loneliness. She offers straightforward guidance for first responders, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and multicultural issues.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make it as manageable as possible.
Online Approaches for Anxiety and Life Changes
Ana Maria often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical tools you can use between sessions to reduce anxious thinking and test new ways of coping.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships affect emotions and patterns. This approach helps people understand why certain situations trigger strong reactions and how to build steadier connections over time.
Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust what’s used based on what feels helpful. The therapist and client decide together which approaches fit best for symptoms and life demands.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between appointments or fit brief exchanges into a work break. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and accessible while working toward clearer coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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